September 13, 2024

Abbott Laboratories

Galway

FULL TIME

EMENA Regional Customer Supply Chain Planner

About Abbott
At Abbott, we're committed to helping people live their best possible life through the power of health. For more than 125 years, we've brought new products and technologies to the world - in nutrition, diagnostics, medical devices and branded generic pharmaceuticals - that create more possibilities for more people at all stages of life. Today, 99,000 of us are working to help people live not just longer, but better, in the more than 150 countries we serve.

Description
The role is an integral part of the EMENA (Europe, Middle East & North Africa) Customer Supply Chain and will focus on:

Planning of shipments into EMENA
Visibility of shipments into EMENA
Understand the EMENA business and country requirements related to freight forwarding
Communicating requirements to management, customer services and Abbott International Transport teams
Transactional effort needed to compliantly ship and record movements of product and materials

Responsibilities and Duties

Create and maintain country mapping reference guide - ports of entry, customs requirements, flight schedules, land locked country etc. for easy reference for all cross functions
Alignment with other ARDx entities ie. ADK (Abbott Diagnostics Korea) regards to capability, scope of work
Volume forecasting for key orders and create delivery plan
Create visibility for the commercial team & finance team on shipment status to support on revenue recognition forecast and customer-facing communication
Ensure that all trade compliance is met for EMENA countries
Manage and or support to ensure compliance with embargo countries
Understanding of products and what is required to ship products (validated boxes, data loggers)
Support customer service team with solutions related to distribution
Support commercial excellence team with, lead times and other information related to distribution
Execution and management of allocation/rationing process within CWH